Crisis and victory
Compilations[edit]
History of first hundred years resolves into crises releasing greater measure of power and victories[edit]
"Nor will it be my intention to ignore, whilst surveying the panorama which the revolution of a hundred years spreads before our gaze, the swift interweaving of seeming reverses with evident victories, out of which the hand of an inscrutable Providence has chosen to form the pattern of the Faith from its earliest days, or to minimize those disasters that have so often proved themselves to be the prelude to fresh triumphs which have, in turn, stimulated its growth and consolidated its past achievements. Indeed, the history of the first hundred years of its evolution resolves itself into a series of internal and external crises, of varying severity, devastating in their immediate effects, but each mysteriously releasing a corresponding measure of divine power, lending thereby a fresh impulse to its unfoldment, this further unfoldment engendering in its turn a still graver calamity, followed by a still more liberal effusion of celestial grace enabling its upholders to accelerate still further its march and win in its service still more compelling victories."
- (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. xiii)
Major alternations of crisis and victory in Bahá'í history[edit]
This is not yet complete
| Age | ||||
| Crisis/Victory | Ministry of the Báb | Ministry of Bahá'u'lláh | Ministry of 'Abdu'l-Bahá | Beginning of the Formative Age/Administrative Order |
| Victory 0 | Declaration of the Báb | |||
| Crisis 1 | Fanaticism and His imprisonment | 1. Bahá'u'lláh's banishment 2. Bahá'u'lláh's withdrawal |
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| Victory 1 | 1. Formulated laws 2. Instituted Covenant 3. Inaugurated Dispensation in Badasht 4. Asserted His station publicly in Tabríz |
1. Bábí resurgence 2. Bahá'u'lláh's Declaration |
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| Crisis 2 | 1. Uprisings in the provinces 2. His execution 3. Bahá'u'lláh's imprisonment |
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| Victory 2 | The Bahá'í Revelation dawned | |||
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